Karen Peterson was named executive editor in August 2008. She served as managing editor of The News Tribune for three years. She joined the paper in 2000 as suburban team leader. She has been a reporter and editor for newspapers in Hawaii and Indiana, and for an Army publication in Germany. During her husband’s first tour at Fort Lewis in the late 1980s, she wrote for The Lakewood Press and started the monthly Pierce County Parent. She is a board member of the Associated Press Managing Editors. She and her husband, a retired Army officer, have two sons and live in Gig Harbor. Email Karen
Managing editor Dale Phelps has been a senior editor at The News Tribune since 1998. Before coming to Tacoma, he was a copy editor and assistant sports editor for 19 years at The Kansas City Star. He's a past chairman of the Northwest Region of the Associated Press Sports Editors. He lives in University Place with his wife and two children.| Email Dale
David Montesino has been the Assistant Managing Editor/Visuals for The News Tribune since December 2005. Montesino oversees the operation of the photography, graphics, design and copydesk departments. He worked at The News Tribune as the presentation team leader in 2000. He has worked as a graphics editor for The New York Times, art director at the L.A. Times and managing editor of The Honolulu Advertiser. Born and raised in the Philippines, Montesino immigrated to the United States in 1984 and studied journalism at Humboldt State University. | Email David
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Among the top local stories in Tuesday's News Tribune:
• Massive concrete noise barriers could make life a little more liveable along I-5 in Fife, but at what price to many of the businesses also located there?
• Local charities are bracing for heavy demand as they prepare Thanksgiving meals for the needy.
• Redlight cameras are coming to rural intersections around Pierce County, and the sheriff's department is wondering why it's not in line to receive the revenue.
Among the top local stories in Thursday's News Tribune:
• Remember that much-anticipated $3.2 billion state budget deficit? That one that was much discussed during the recent campaign for governor? Well, it's grown to $5.1 billion.
• The 81st Brigade Combat Team, composed largely of Guardsmen from Washington state, is back on duty in the Iraq war zone. But unlike its first deployment several years ago, the situation is relatively calm, almost as if peace might break out.
• Soldiers with memory problems stemming from traumatic brain injuries have a new resource at Madigan Army Medical Center.
Among the top local stories in Wednesday's News Tribune:
• It was a difficult, dangerous process, but dive teams managed to recover a car from the Green River Tuesday and found the body of a missing toddler inside. Another child, 13, remains missing after the car plunged into the river last week.
• The City of Tacoma plans to break into its piggy bank to deal with its budget problems during the next two years.
